Universiti Malaya aims for zero waste

Recycling food: Food scraps collected from food outlets in Universiti Malaya are heaped into piles to decompose into useful compost. Photo: AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

Universiti Malaya maximises recycling to minimise its waste.

With populations that run into the thousands, each university campus is a community in itself, generating as much trash as say, a village.